National day calendar

I'm a little late but today (August 30) some interesting historical events today included:

 

1885 -  the Andromedid meteor shower displayed more than 1300 meteors per hour

 

1905 -  Ty Cobb debut with the Detroit Tigers

 

1960 -  Inherit the Wind opened in theaters starring Spencer Tracy, Fredric March and Gene Kelly

 

1965 -  Bob Dylan released his 6th album Highway 61 Revisited which features "Like A Rolling Stone" and "Ballad of Thin Man"

 

1967 -  Thurgood Marshall became the first African American Supreme Court Justice

 

1983 -  Astronaut Guion S. Bluford Jr became the first African American to fly in space

 

1984 -  the Space Shuttle Discovery launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its maiden voyage

 

1992 -  Nirvana released the DVD Life at Reading

 

2007 -  the world's largest honeycomb broke the world record. Weighing in at 22 lbs and 1 Oz, it came from a beehive owned by Argirios Koskos of Greece 

 

Some interesting birthdays include:

 

Mary Shelley (1797)

Barry Appleby (1909) - creator of the comic strip The Gambols

Kitty Wells (1919)

Maurice Hilleman (1919) - developed more than 40 vaccines during his career including one for the mumps

Geoffrey Beene (1927)

Warren Buffett (1930)

Ernie Ball (1930)

Carrie Saxon Perry (1931) - first African American woman elected as mayor of a major New England city when she won in Hartford, CT

John Phillips (1935) - leader of The Mamas & The Papas

Sylvia Alice Earle (1935) - oceanographer who founded Mission Blue, SEAlliance and Deep Ocean Exploration and Research 

Molly Ivins (1944)

Amy Sherald (1973) - portrait artist who painted First Lady Michelle Obama

Lisa Ling (1973)